Pretending by Adrian Gabriel Dumitru Exposes the Silent Struggle Between Our True Self and the Mask We Wear
Bucharest, Romania, 26th Jun 2025 – Romanian author and philosopher Adrian Gabriel Dumitru presents a powerful call to emotional honesty with his latest work, Pretending: A Way of Wasting Our Lives. This introspective book blends poetic narrative with philosophical clarity to explore how the act of pretending—living disconnected from one’s inner truth—leads not only to personal dissatisfaction but to a life slowly slipping away unnoticed.
Written as part of Dumitru’s ongoing journey of “self therapy,” Pretending explores the contradiction between inner awareness and external performance. The author reflects on the emotional fatigue caused by continuously wearing a mask and pretending to be aligned, fulfilled, or even happy—when the reality within tells a different story.
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